Silence is a reprieve for the soul within me that is weary of the trivial noise of this world. Free from televised banalities, from empty pop tunes, from forced chatter, the soul unfolds itself and listens more deeply. And what does it then hear?
God does not want our lives to be easy and pain-free, though we have great difficulty in understanding this. His messages to us are intentionally opaque, for as the Psalmist writes: "You have hidden the truth in darkness; through this mystery you teach me wisdom" (Psalm 51). We appreciate that which we have struggled to attain, not that which is but given freely.
God has set forth a path for us to grow and keep on growing through struggle, toil, pain, uncertainty.
Christ said to love your neighbor as yourself, not as much as. To do for others what you would do for your own person. And what is his teaching here? To understand our inclusion in All That Is, our non-separateness from every human and being and atom, and to give us new eyes to see beyond the dimness of our limited egoic mindset.
The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.
God does not want our lives to be easy and pain-free, though we have great difficulty in understanding this. His messages to us are intentionally opaque, for as the Psalmist writes: "You have hidden the truth in darkness; through this mystery you teach me wisdom" (Psalm 51). We appreciate that which we have struggled to attain, not that which is but given freely.
God has set forth a path for us to grow and keep on growing through struggle, toil, pain, uncertainty.
Christ said to love your neighbor as yourself, not as much as. To do for others what you would do for your own person. And what is his teaching here? To understand our inclusion in All That Is, our non-separateness from every human and being and atom, and to give us new eyes to see beyond the dimness of our limited egoic mindset.
The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.
